Statutes of Liberty
Geoff Ward
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Description for Statutes of Liberty
Hardback. This second edition contains up to date material on the New York School of Poets and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. It includes a definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. This second edition contains up-to-date material on the group and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. A new postscript focuses on the work of Ashbery, currently the most esteemed American poet since Wallace Stevens, and his profile output in the 1990s, including his two hundred page epic poem Flow Chart.
Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. This second edition contains up-to-date material on the group and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. A new postscript focuses on the work of Ashbery, currently the most esteemed American poet since Wallace Stevens, and his profile output in the 1990s, including his two hundred page epic poem Flow Chart.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
Series
Language, Discourse, Society
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333786383
SKU
V9780333786383
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99-15
About Geoff Ward
GEOFF WARD is Professor of English at the University of Dundee. His publications include Language Poetry and the American Avant-garde (1993); he edited The Bloomsbury Guide to Romantic Literature, and is co-editor of Re: Joyce (1998). He has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in order to write a critical biography of John Ashbery.
Reviews for Statutes of Liberty
'By a wonderful irony - an irony John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler would surely have appreciated - the best overview of the New York School of Poets was written by a British poet-critic then living in Liverpool. Geoff Ward's superb close readings of individual poems is everywhere informed by stringent cultural and political commentary. In this new edition, ... Read more